List of Rickenbacker players

This is a list of musicians who are known to be regular players of Rickenbacker guitars and basses.

Guitarists

• George Harrison of The Beatles
• John Lennon of The Beatles
• Maurice Gibb of Bee Gees (1988-1994)
• Steven Van Zandt of The E Street Band
• Jesse Lacey of Brand New
• Adam Anderson of Hurts
• Neil Halstead of Slowdive
• Jim Babjak of The Smithereens
• Kurt Ballou of Converge
• Mark Gardener of Ride
• Andy Bell of Ride, Oasis and Beady Eye
• Kat Bjelland of Babes In Toyland and Katastrophy Wife
• James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers
• Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney
• Peter Buck of R.E.M.
• Jeff Buckley
• Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• Mary Chapin Carpenter
• Al Cisneros of Sleep
• Mark Crozer of The Jesus and Mary Chain
• Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo
• Lenny Davidson of The Dave Clark Five
• Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens
• Pete Doherty of The Libertines
• Sherri DuPree of Eisley
• The Edge of U2
• Thomas Erak of the Fall of Troy
• Jay Ferguson of Sloan
• John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Robert Forster of The Go-Betweens
• Les Fradkin of Beatlemania
• Glenn Frey of The Eagles
• Noel Gallagher of Oasis
• Craig Gannon of The Smiths
• Per Gessle of Roxette
• Dave Gregory of XTC
• Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!
• Sid Griffin of the Long Ryders and the Coal Porters
• Tony Hicks of The Hollies
• Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles
• James Honeyman-Scott of the Pretenders
• Keith Hopwood of Herman's Hermits
• Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day
• Steve Howe of Yes
• Kenny Howes
• James Iha of The Smashing Pumpkins
• Daniel Johns of Silverchair
• Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones
• Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane
• John Kay of Steppenwolf
• Daniel Kessler of Interpol
• Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend
• Denny Laine of The Moody Blues
• Yegor Letov of Grazhdanskaya Oborona
• Courtney Love of Hole
• Laura Marling
• Paul Maroon of The Walkmen
• Johnny Marr of The Smiths
• Gerry Marsden of Gerry & The Pacemakers
• Chris Martin of Coldplay
• Roger McGuinn of The Byrds
• Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens
• Wendy Melvoin of Prince and The Revolution
• Dave Meros of Spock's Beard
• Ed O'Brien of Radiohead
• Christopher Owens of Girls
• Kevin Parker of Tame Impala
• Mike Pender of The Searchers
• Tom Petty of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• Guy Picciotto of Fugazi
• Sergio Pizzorno of Kasabian
• Jim Reeves
• Tim Rogers of You Am I
• Tom Rowley of Milburn
• Michael Rutherford of Genesis and Mike + The Mechanics
• Charlie Sexton of Arc Angels
• Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio
• Elliott Smith
• Fred "Sonic" Smith of MC5 and Sonic's Rendezvous Band
• Rick Springfield
• Bernard Sumner of New Order and Joy Division
• Toots Thielemans
• Pete Townshend of The Who
• Chris Urbanowicz of Editors
• Pål Waaktaar of a-Ha
• Dave Wakeling of The English Beat
• Joe Walsh of The Eagles
• Paul Weller of The Jam
• Paul Westerberg of The Replacements
• Marty Willson-Piper of The Church
• Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys
• Dwight Yoakam
• Thom Yorke of Radiohead
• Robin Zander of Cheap Trick
• Johnny Ramone of Ramones
• Graham Nash of The Hollies
• Stevie Ray Vaughan

Bassists

• Lemmy of Motörhead
• Gaye Advert of The Adverts
• Geddy Lee of Rush
• Martin Eric Ain of Celtic Frost
• André 3000 of Outkast
• Chris Baio of Vampire Weekend
• Lou Barlow of Dinosaur Jr
• Guy Berryman of Coldplay
• Zeta Bosio of Soda Stereo
• Cliff Burton of Metallica
• Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath
• Johnny Christ of Avenged Sevenfold
• Al Cisneros of Sleep and Om
• Urlo of Ufomammut
• Les Claypool of Primus
• Paul D'Amour of Tool
• Alan Davey of Hawkwind, Gunslinger and Pre-Med
• John Deacon of Queen
• Joey DeMaio of Manowar
• Steve DiGiorgio of bands such as Sadus, Dark Hall & Testament
• Dave Dreiwitz of Ween
• John Entwistle of The Who
• Bruce Foxton of The Jam
• Nikolai Fraiture of the Strokes
• Maurice Gibb of The Bee Gees
• Martin "Youth" Glover of Killing Joke
• Roger Glover of Deep Purple
• Hellmut Hattler of Kraan
• Martin Gordon of Sparks, Jet and Radio Stars.
• Graham Gouldman of 10cc
• Bob Hardy of Franz Ferdinand
• Haruko Haruhara
• Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple
• Peter Hook of Joy Division and New Order
• Rick James
• Pete Trewavas of Marillion
• Tony James of Generation X
• Inge Johansson of Against Me! and The (International) Noise Conspiracy
• Eric Judy of Modest Mouse
• Jesse F. Keeler of Death From Above 1979
• Steve Kille of Dead Meadow
• Larry Koehn of Tony's Tygers
• Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs
• Russell Leetch of Editors
• Brent Liles of Social Distortion and Agent Orange
• Philip Lynott of Thin Lizzy
• Dan Maines of Clutch
• Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols
• Paul McCartney of The Beatles & Wings
• Randy Meisner of the Eagles
• Dave Meros of Spock's Beard
• Mike Mesaros of The Smithereens
• Mike Mills of R.E.M.
• Gary "Mani" Mounfield of Primal Scream & The Stone Roses
• Mario Mutis of Los Jaivas
• Nick O'Malley of Arctic Monkeys
• Nick Oliveri of Queens of the Stone Age & Kyuss
• Jerry Only of The Misfits
• Prescott Niles of The Knack
• David Paton of Pilot
• Ian Peres of Wolfmother
• Tracy Pew of The Birthday Party
• Steve Priest of Sweet
• Peter Quaife of The Kinks
• Scott Reeder of Kyuss
• Kira Roessler of Black Flag and Dos
• Chris Ross of Wolfmother
• Michael Rutherford of Genesis
• Troy Sanders of Mastodon
• Timothy B Schmit of The Eagles
• Paul Simonon of The Clash
• Chris Squire of Yes
• Tommy Stinson of The Replacements
• Mark Stoermer of The Killers
• Ray Shulman of Gentle Giant
• Leon Sylvers III of The Sylvers and Dynasty
• Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear
• John Taylor of Duran Duran
• Fred Turner of Bachman–Turner Overdrive
• Roger Waters of Pink Floyd
• Kieren Webster of The View
• Josephine Wiggs of The Breeders
• Paul Wilson of Snow Patrol
• Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers
• Christopher Wolstenholme of Muse
• Allen Woody of Gov't Mule and The Allman Brothers Band
• Bill Wyman of The Rolling Stones
• Buddy Zabala of The Eraserheads and The Dawn
• Simon Gallup of The Cure
• Scott Pilgrim of Sex Bob-omb
• Jenny Lee Lindberg of Warpaint
• Greg Spawton of Big Big Train
• Stanley Clarke